Author: Charlie Burns IBM continues to invest heavily in technologies underlying and enabling the Boundary-free Enterprise™, with the most significant of these being Cloud, Mobility, Social, Analytics, and Integration. IBM’s focus on these technologies a ...

Author: Brian Dooley Talent Management is undergoing significant change as the pressures that define the BfE continue to resonate throughout the business environment. Talent Management processes are being integrated, automated, and analyzed with the same ...

Authors: Mike West, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker Recent Cloud-driven changes in services, technologies, and capabilities have shaped a radical and complete re-thinking of the roles, responsibilities, capabilities, and value of en ...

Authors: Alex Bakker and Bruce Guptill The components of the new Master Architecture have accelerated rapidly to a level of business relevance since we first described it last year (1052CLS, Boundary-free Enterprise™: Empowered by the New Master Architec ...

Author: Charlie Burns Adoption of Cloud IT offerings began, and mostly remains, based on the attraction of reduced infrastructure costs. However, ongoing conversations with users have shown that simply selecting a Cloud infrastructure offering does not e ...

Author: Charlie Burns Cloud-based IT infrastructure has become a legitimate, viable alternative to traditional on-premises IT infrastructure. While most IT executives perceive Cloud-based offerings as a means to reduce costs, experience is showing that C ...

Authors: Charlie Burns and Bruce Guptill What does it really cost to move IT workloads into the Cloud? What are the real economic benefits to the enterprise? And which types of workloads are better off running in traditional environments? Saugatuck rese ...

Author: Charlie Burns Not surprisingly, ongoing discussions with Cloud users and providers indicate that the popularity of Cloud-based solutions continues to expand. However, the same discussions reveal the increasing incidence of enterprise IT organizat ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s November 2012 Cloud Business Summit shared insights and guidance from dozens of experienced IT and Business leaders regarding key aspects of Cloud and business management. This Strategic Perspective boils down the intera ...

Author: Bill McNee As we ramp into the New Year, it is clear that 2013 will be a watershed transition year from a business growth perspective. Many experts believe that the global economy is poised for a rebound – led by continued strong growth in the de ...

Authors: Charlie Burns and Bruce Guptill As significant sections of the heavily populated Northeastern US are still recovering from the destruction caused by “Superstorm” Sandy, we are also approaching the traditional US celebration of bounty we call Tha ...

Author: Charlie Burns The ongoing and broadening popularity of Cloud IT continues to provide an evolving market opportunity for technologies and services that assist in selection of Cloud offerings and assist in Cloud adoption and use. In early 2011 Saug ...

Author: Charlie Burns Even as Cloud adoption continues to expand from point solutions to core business functions, vendors continue to enhance their Cloud offerings and seek a larger share of enterprise IT spending. In recent discussions with a range of p ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck has chronicled and illustrated how enterprise business is shifting to a boundary-free reality, and how IT acquisition preferences reflect that shift. We’ve also shown how there are likely to be not one, but two disruptive ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck research indicates the beginning of a shift from on-premises software through a hybridized, Cloud+on-premises phase, toward a pure-play Cloud acquisition and deployment model within the next four years. This Strategic Pers ...

Author: Bruce Guptill The critical knowledge to come from Sapphire 2012 is this: SAP leadership is pulling out all stops when it comes to Cloud. HANA is the core of SAP’s technology and business strategy; Cloud is required to make HANA work, and to enabl ...

Author: Charlie Burns As 2012 began, our global survey of IT and business leaders provided clear indications of two types of IT organization, each with its own criteria for evaluating and implementing Cloud-based business solutions. The factors that defi ...

Authors: Charlie Burns and Alex Bakker As 2012 began, our global survey of IT and business leaders revealed that the top business benefits expected of SaaS / Cloud business solutions are reduced capital expenditure and reduced time to market / time to va ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Core enterprise business goals vary somewhat in priority from year to year. For 2012, enterprise business goals tend to emphasize growth in revenue and market share, including selling more to existing customers. Improvements in marg ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Alex Bakker, Charlie Burns, Mike West, Bill McNee This document represents a comprehensive review and analysis of data gathered via Saugatuck‘s February 2012 global web survey of enterprise executives regarding SaaS/Cloud Busine ...